According to the company website, the hunting/fishing/camping retail store plans to open a location at 3801 Clemson Blvd. in late June. It is renovating a large retail site adjacent to the Burlington Coat Factory, in property formerly leased by Kmart.

Workers painted the store's green color scheme on the exterior of the building Monday.

The chain operates 86 stores nationwide, the vast majority in the western U.S. Its growing corporate footprint includes nine stores east of the Mississippi River, and eight of those locations are in the Southeast — one each in South Carolina, North Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia.

The only South Carolina store is in Columbia.

The Clemson Boulevard location will be within easy driving distance of Lake Hartwell, which has been ranked among the nation's top bass fishing venues and which hosts several competitive fishing events each year.

The resurgence in manufacturing jobs in Anderson County in recent years also played a role, Anderson County administrator Rusty Burns said.

"Retail investments like these have a lot to do with job growth," Burns said.

The 32-year-old company, headquartered in Midvale, Utah, has 5,300 employees nationwide. In Anderson, it will become a primary competitor of Grady's Great Outdoors, a locally owned, 57-year-old company also located on Clemson Boulevard, as well as Cabela's in Greenville.

According to its website, the store will also offer instruction, seminars and special events related to outdoor activities.